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Patented Marci: 12, 1867.

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SAMUEL C. RUNDLETT, OF PORTLAND, MAlNE,- ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOSEPH GRANT, .OF THE SAMEPLA-CE.

Letters Patent No. 62,780, dated Zlfarhh 12, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IIl CATTLE-TIE.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY concerns;

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. RUNDLETT, of Portland, in the county of Cumberland, and $tate of Maine, have invented a new and useful improved Cattle-Tie; and I hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable .ethers to make and use my invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a side elevation of my invention. 7

Figure 2, a vertical section of the same.

Figure 3, a top view of the disk a.

Figure 4, a view of the innerside of the disk 6, indicating the washer 0.

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The object of my invention is to provide an improved cattle-tic, so constructed that certain objections now shown by experience to exist against the tie at present in use may be avoided and obviated.

In order to render the purpose of my improvementstmore obvious, I.will first state the objections to these articles as at present made. One objection to then is the inconvenience found in' attaching and detaching the tie from the stanchion of the stall in which the creature is confined. In one form of these ties the bow d must be contracted, or its two ends brought nearer together by the hand before it can be placed on the stanchion or renloved therefromu This renders the article somewhat inconvenient, as the bow is made of iron and of considerable rigidity. Another objection is the difliculty in removing the-two disks a and b when the bow d is to be removed from the clamping'portio'n which holds it. In both the forms of ties mostly used at present the rop ef is made to pass through two holes made in each of the disks a and Z2, and pass over the top of thedisk a. As the rope that must be employed is considerably large and strong, when it has become fixed into thes'e'holes by use and the straining of the animal thereupon,-not a little inconvenience is felt in removing it for the purpose of detaching the tie from the stanchion. Still a third objection is the liability of'the rope to become twisted by the movements of the animals head, and thus binding the neck too closely, and perhaps injuring him by choking.

I endeavor to obviate these objections in the following ways: To render the bow oZ very quickly and easily separable from the clamping portion of the tie, I unite the two disks a and Z5 by the screw g, passing. through their centres and held by the nut. By releasing the'serew the'lower diskt can be quickly removed, and this will admit of thebow being taken out of the clamping portion of the tie. To prevent the rope becoming set in the two holes in the disks, I attach it permanently to the rim surrounding these disks, (see 7t, and it is, as in other cases, removed from the neck of the creature by separating its two ends. To render the rope less likely to become twisted I employ the following means in combination, viz, attaching the rope to the rim, as at It, I unite the two disks by the centre-screw g, and construct the washer c on the disk 6, and the shoulder at on the inner side of the rim, running entirely around the inner side. The object of these'is to allow the rim to revolve around the disks when placed together within it, and with as little friction as is conveniently arrived at. When the animal confined by this tie draws or pulls away from the stanchion in a horizontal directiononly one of the disks bears upon the shoulder m, and upon only one side thereof, that is, the disk a upon the side 1 of the shoulder m, so that the friction and difliculty of the disks turning within therim are much diminished, and when the disks will thus revolve in the riin the rope will always remain untwistedt In one form of tie now made, the two disks have each a shoulder which overlaps the outer edges of the rim, as at 2, and are united, moreover, as before described, by the rope passing through them. I disclaim such arrangement, for when strain is brought upon the rope the two disks are so brought together, and the shoulders on them so bind the rim, as at 2, that they revolve with great difiiculty, and are consequently not efiicient to prevent the twisting of the rope. The washer c on the inside of the disk bis intended to be made of depth or thickness suilicient to prevent the two disks from pressing on the shoulder m, however tightly they may be brought together by the screw 9.

I do not claim the two disks; neither do I claim the rim surrounding them, neither the bow in conjunction with them; neither do I claim any form of tie where the rope passes through the two disks aand b, as has before been claimed; neither do I claim the disks .a s heretofore made combination with the same; but What I do claim, anddesire to secure by Letters Potent, is-- 1. The centre-screw g, to unite the two disks when placed withinthe rim. 2. In combination with the two disks a and b, when the disk Z2 has the washer c, the shoulder m on the inside of the rim.

3. Attaching the rope at the rim, as set forth, in combination with the centre-screw g, shoulder m, and washer c on the disk 6, tor the purpose of allowing the two united disks to revolve within the rim.

' S. C. RUNDLETT.

Witnesses:

WrLLIAM HENRY CLIFFORD, IIENRK O. HOUSTON. 

